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Acting

Lon Chaney Jr.

Career: Active from 1932 to 2014, with a break from 1972 to 1989, busiest in 1941 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 68
top three billing

Average score: 54/100

Highest rated: High Noon
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 107 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Lon Chaney Jr. Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.2, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.2, average 3.0
Social Commentary
3.5, average 4.9
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 11
Classic Horror 6
Classic Hollywood 5
Good vs Evil 5
Gothic Atmosphere 5
Action-Oriented 4
Period Piece 4
Nostalgic 4
Historical Setting 4
Social Commentary 4
Mad Scientist 4
Cult Classic 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

203

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage)

2000s

4 titles

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

as Hassan (archive footage)

Terror in the Tropics

as Lyle Talbot (archive footage)

Heroes of Horror

as (archive footage)

The Many Faces of Dracula

as Count Dracula (archive footage)

1990s

8 titles · average score 73

Universal Horror

73

as (archive footage)

Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces

as (archive footage)

Dracula in the Movies

as (archive footage)

Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage)

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage)

Halloween Monster Bash

as Butcher Benton (archive footage)

Abbott and Costello in the Movies

as Outtake

1970s

3 titles · average score 31

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

17

as Groton

The Female Bunch

45

as Monti

1960s

29 titles · average score 55

Fireball Jungle

as Sammy

Spider Baby

72

as Bruno

Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors

29

as Dr. Mendell

Johnny Reno

48

as Sheriff Hodges

Face of the Screaming Werewolf

31

as The Mummified Werewolf

House of the Black Death

37

as Belial Desard

Witchcraft

59

as Morgan Whitlock

Young Fury

56

as Bartender

The Haunted Palace

71

as Simon Orne

The Devil's Messenger

47

as Satan

The Phantom

as Jed

House of Terror

57

as The Mummified Werewolf

1950s

62 titles · average score 59

The Alligator People

48

as Manon

The Defiant Ones

78

as Big Sam

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

65

TV show · as Chingachgook

The Cyclops

34

as Martin 'Marty' Melville

Manfish

28

as Swede

Indestructible Man

32

as Charles "Butcher" Benton

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

39

as Blackfish

The Boy from Oklahoma

58

as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)

High Noon

86

as Martin Howe

Frankenstein

as The Monster

Battles of Chief Pontiac

57

as Chief Pontiac

Bride of the Gorilla

38

as Commissioner Taro

1940s

44 titles · average score 55

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

76

as The Wolfman

House of Dracula

52

as Lawrence Stewart Talbot

The Frozen Ghost

49

as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great

House of Frankenstein

55

as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man

The Mummy's Curse

41

as Kharis

The Mummy's Ghost

38

as Kharis

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

43

as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man

Son of Dracula

44

as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard

The Mummy's Tomb

36

as The Mummy - Kharis

The Wolf Man

77

as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man

Man-Made Monster

52

as Dan McCormick

One Million B.C.

64

as Akhoba

1930s

51 titles · average score 59

Of Mice and Men

85

as Lennie Small

Ace Drummond

65

as Henchman Ivan

A Scream in the Night

34

as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain

The Shadow of Silk Lennox

as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox

Sixteen Fathoms Deep

as Joe Bethel

The Life of Vergie Winters

61

as Hugo McQueen

Girl o' My Dreams

as Don Cooper

Scarlet River

58

as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)

The Three Musketeers

54

as Lt. Armand Corday

Lucky Devils

63

as Frankie

The Last Frontier

as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost

Bird of Paradise

51

as Thornton

1920s

1 title · average score 61

The Trap

61

as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)